Raised Quotes · Page 36

There is too much of criticism and faultfinding with anger and raised voices.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

— Joe Namath

He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had…

— Nora Roberts

We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.

— Linda Ronstadt

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.

— John Updike

In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.

— Tim Duncan

I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.

— Shelley Long

My mother raised me right - everything from Fleetwood Mac and the Doors to Pink Floyd and so on and so forth.

— Ivan Moody

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes,…

— Isaac Watts

There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the…

— Oliver Goldsmith

I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been…

— Jon Hamm

He raised his brows. "You're drunk." "Am not!" He gave me a bland look. "A drunk's famous last words before they fall…

— J. Lynn

When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded…

— Anonymous

Jack! "Where have you been,you miserable little creep?" He raised his eyebrows,a look of mock hurt on his face."This is the thanks…

— Kiersten White

I regard many of the neoconservatives as personal friends, but that's not stopped them from behaving with extraordinary viciousness towards those of…

— Peter Brimelow

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these…

— Max Weber

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like…

— Anonymous

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar…

— Zach Condon

The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he…

— Georgette Heyer

I looked at the campers, all of them grim and determined. I tried not to feel like this was the last time…

— Rick Riordan

“Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror,…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not." "Well, that's good to know, I guess." "I'm…

— Sarah Dessen

Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet,…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in…

— Alexandra Fuller

I'm a spiritual person. I'm not very religious. I was raised Catholic, but I am influenced a lot by Buddhism and Hinduism.

— Rodrigo Santoro

Funds raised create hope for kids with cancer. Research is our top priority for discovering a cure.

— Jeff Gordon

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

— Nipsey Hussle

For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America…

— Marco Rubio

I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.

— Nia Vardalos

Every time we look at the Blessed Sacrament our place in heaven is raised forever.

— Gertrude the Great

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

— Milo Ventimiglia

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

— Michael Heizer

As scary as it was being raised by one Jewish mother, I have to feel for my kids because they have two…

— Judy Gold

raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?

— Robin Morgan

The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also…

— Vin Diesel

I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

— Denis O'Hare

I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest…

— iO Tillett Wright

I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so…

— Sandra Bullock

I believe that everyone should be treated equal. That's the way I was raised, and that's the way I live my life.

— Paula Deen

There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

— Jan Karon